We met with Afzal Khan MEP on 16 October to discuss our upcoming trip to European Parliament to brief the Human Rights Subcommittee on the situation in Syria. Afzal provided us with very helpful information and recommendations. His office will also be assisting us in arranging meetings with other MEPs.
Yasmin Qureshi MP kindly accepted our request to meet with her in her constituency office in Bolton. We met with her on 15 October to discuss Syria, which is pertinent given the potential Parliamentary vote on Syria within the next month and given that she sits on Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.
We met with Mexican Ambassador to the UK Diego Gomez Pickering on 7 October to discuss Syria. Ambassador Diego wanted to hear our opinion as to what is happening in Syria, we emphasised to him that there is a root cause of the problem which is Assad which needs to be dealt with in order for any solution to materialise.
Richard Harrington MP hosted a number of Syrian groups on 2 October to discuss issues pertaining to the resettlement of Syrian refugees to the UK after he was appointed as the special minister to oversee this process.
The third and final day of the Labour Party Conference on 30 September was busy with a final push for lobbying! After a BBC Radio Manchester interview in the morning, we learned that Jeremy Corbyn was also due to arrive for some interviews, and waited for him to arrive.
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